Birefringence in nonlinear anisotropic dielectric media

Details Birefringence in nonlinear anisotropic dielectric media Birefringence in nonlinear anisotropic dielectric media

2006-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603042v1

Phys.Rev.D70:124035,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.124035

Light propagation is investigated in the context of local anisotropic nonlinear dielectric media at rest with the dielectric coefficients $\epsilon^\mu{}_\nu = \epsilon^\mu{}_\nu (\vec{E},\vec{B})$ and constant $\mu$, in the limit of geometrical optics. Birefringence was examined and the general conditions for its occurrence were presented. A toy model is exhibited, in which uniaxial birefringent media with nonlinear dielectric properties could be driven by external fields in such way that birefringence may be artificially controlled. The effective geometry interpretation is also addressed.

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